Half of UK men would swap sex for 50 inch TV.  This is the reason why when American men go to the UK the line of women wanting to talk to us can be seen from the space shuttle.

Garth Sundem has an article in the BBC News today on making the correct decisions and will be on Horizon on BBC Two at 2100GMT on Tuesday 12 February to demonstrate. He also has a new book in the…

"Men that look no further than outside think health an appurtenance unto life and quarrel with our condition of being sick. But I who have looked at the innermost parts of man and known what tender…

Oops, there was a Just Science again this year and we missed it. Mostly because we do just science every day. But it's nice that it's catching on. I wonder if baseball players have 'just baseball'…

Those zany Canadians. If you disagree on global warming, you should be thrown in jail. Dr. David Suzuki said "What I would challenge you to do is to put a lot of effort into trying to see whether…

A new book argues that scientists are motivated by sex and status ... and, also, scientists don't need public funding. The money quote: And they want it for the same reasons as those white-coated…

I'm trying to find time to write a paper, and thus I've neglected my blog. But here are two interesting links: Super Tuesday and Science Debate 2008: The US National Academies of Sciences have…

The late Leslie Orgel, a pioneering researcher in pre-biotic evolution, has an interesting essay in the most recent issue of PLoS Biology. A long-running debate in origins-of-life research has been…

President Bush asked Congress to double federal support for basic research in the physical sciences in the State of the Union address. I guess he reads my column.

We know that graduate school admissions in science went way up in 2006 and that's a good thing. Bring more scientists into the US, make them citizens, and we can stop talking about how we need to…

I discovered The Guild of Scientific Troubadours because they linked to one of our articles. The interesting hook? "Membership in the guild is restricted only to those musicians capable of keeping…

Alf Eaton shows how to gather scientific reaction to open access scientific articles He has written javascript code bookmarklets to aid in tracking conversations about peer research papers. If you…

I would like to teach High School math when I retire, but we will see. I went as far as to apply for and be accepted as a graduate student at Drexel University’s external degree program last year,…

http://monkeytrials.blogspot.com/2008/01/sunshine-state-is-in-process-of.html created a county by county graphic of school boards in FL that are opposing evolution.

Stop slashing science funding, says Intel Chairman Craig Barrett. He's a pretty old school guy, I'll give him that, but it's not just a funding issue, it's also a corporate convenience issue. We're…

This seems obvious but Everybody Doesn't Need Psychotherapy. Like many other disciplines, a few shysters can make everyone look bad, and then out and out charlatans, like Eugene Landy with Brian…

I found a good recap of some recent gene postings at biomarker-driven mental health 2.0. Unlike most of these 'carnivals', this isn't the same cabal of self-promoting monkeys creating these as a way…

Environmental hypocrisy is the new Prius, it seems. While people coo about Toyota they label the Tata Nano an environmental disaster. Why? Because it gets 54 MPG? No, because the new middle class in…

Will this Creationist museum become extinct? Mt. Blanco Fossil Museum, which rejects evolution and claims that man and dinosaurs coexisted, said it will close unless it can sell its car-sized…

Global warming protest frosted with snow.   When well-meaning people continue to ratchet up the decibel level to try and spur faster action, it tends to become noise.  And when a…